Nice car!
I have a question regarding S3 Ic. Back in 2011 ish, I was able to source the S3 IC from many different discounted VW/Audi shops online. However, they seems to be discountinued.
Also, heard that mk6 r ic would work on the GTI models, do you know if they would fit?
My old mkv had the S3 IC but I sold the car to get a newer mkv and thinking about upgrading the IC.
Thanks

Nice car!
I have a question regarding S3 Ic. Back in 2011 ish, I was able to source the S3 IC from many different discounted VW/Audi shops online. However, they seems to be discountinued.
Also, heard that mk6 r ic would work on the GTI models, do you know if they would fit?
My old mkv had the S3 IC but I sold the car to get a newer mkv and thinking about upgrading the IC.
Thanks

Actually the core is the same between the R and S3 IC so it really doesn't matter which you get. The R ic has plastic end caps, which is actually pretty nice for w/m if you go that route. I like it, it's a little short on flow for the K04 imo. But I'd buy it again for the k03 without hesitation.

Lot of work done in the past few days. First, got the car up on a lift to fix that sheared front sway bar bracket bolt. Go figure - the first thing I did is shear the other side trying to torque it out. VW needs to spec thicker bolts if the torque necessary to loosen the bolt is too high due to every-day corrosion. It was a particularly difficult job because the brackets wouldn't just pop off the top. I had to drop the subframe really far to get the brackets to clear the tie rod boots (this was harder than it should have been for me because those bolts were 1.5" down into the subframe). When my father-in-law and I sctuggled for an hour to pull the bar out, he figured out he could just drill out the nuts to separate the top and bottom halves of the brackets. I came in the next morning with a fresh mind to re-assemble the subframe with new brackets and the extra collar Tyrolsport sent me for that ordeal many dozens of thousands of miles ago.

I'm happy to say that the car feels really planted and direct after the fix, but I still have a clunk somewhere up front. It feels good to know there isn't anything more difficult to tackle in order to fix that clunk, too.

Also installed the RCD330 tonight:

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Just installed. Really easy install. Nothing on this car has been so easy to plug and play.

Good things: red accents, sound quality (at low volumes - indistinguishable with the car in motion), absolutely flawless integration with the car (radio buttons work, the mute button mutes because I haven't reset it via vag-com yet, the look and fitment is perfect). The screen is really great. A "black" screen with the backlight on is not distracting at night like the RCD510, which I had shut completely off. Touchscreen responsiveness is great, too. ANDROID AUTO.

I'm a pretty techie person, but never really considered my car a piece of tech. The best I had was HD radio and hands-free calling, not to mention a huge battery and data drain on my phone when the rcd510 would auto-play Google music. Now this car now feels like a 2018-era car. I have Waze, Google play music that DOESN'T auto-play when I don't want it to, Google assistant, and best a system that updates over time.